Insurance Company Announces Plans to Build New Offices in Downtown Des Moines

The three-story Foster Building and the six-story Robertson Building will be demolished in fall 2014 to make way for a new EMC Insurance Companies office building. (Photo: Joel Aschbrenner/The Register)

The new building will be located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Seventh and Walnut streets. EMC plans to demolish three-century old buildings to make way for the new offices. The Register reports that the Robertson and Foster buildings are among those that will be demolished.

EMC said it plans to demolish the three buildings this fall but a construction timeline has not been determined.